Comment Re:Code vs human language (Score 1) 120
Luxury!
Comment Dissuade Humans (Score 1) 69
My biggest problem with image grid captchas is they slow me down.
You have to deliberately move the mouse in non-linear paths to pass, and pause a least a fraction of a second between clicking images, otherwise you fail the test.
Comment Re:It won't hurt much (Score 4, Insightful) 203
Well, Reply Vs Reply All is a VERY important distinction
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 154
Ah, but how much is a 10TB SDD vs HDD?
Comment Misnamed wood (Score 2) 90
From the linked article, it's clearly translucent wood, not transparent.
Comment Re: hard hitting (Score 3, Informative) 30
Let's see - on the Faux News website, "About Frucker Carlson Tonight" :
'Tucker Carlson Tonight' is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. We ask the questions that you would ask - and demand answers. Catch us weeknights at 8 p.m. ET!"
Well, so glad that it's clearly marked as "entertainment" there. Slight problems (1) It ISN'T (2) Carlson is one of the smugest trolls on the planet.
'Tucker Carlson Tonight' is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. We ask the questions that you would ask - and demand answers. Catch us weeknights at 8 p.m. ET!"
Well, so glad that it's clearly marked as "entertainment" there. Slight problems (1) It ISN'T (2) Carlson is one of the smugest trolls on the planet.
Comment Re:Oreganon? (Score 1) 31
Ogron.
Comment Re:Damn it; so close ... (Score 1) 38
Don't forget to reverse the polarity
Comment Re:File systems are designed around... (Score 1) 209
Well, I use a homemade file-indexing system that uses SQLite on NTFS. Store file names, size, path, meta (EXIF tags, etc), etc.
Pulls up search results across 18TB of multiple spinning rust and SSD drives in seconds.
Takes 15 minutes to re-index every day, but during the same dead of night times that stuff backs up to the NAS.
Comment Re:reCAPTCHA sucks ass (Score 1) 115
Yeah, I've noticed the real problem is completing the Captcha TOO QUICKLY.
There's strange logic there that thinks if you do it quickly, you can't be a human, and so deserve ANOTHER ONE to solve.
I've just learned to pause three seconds before clicking the last image, and that seems to work.
There's strange logic there that thinks if you do it quickly, you can't be a human, and so deserve ANOTHER ONE to solve.
I've just learned to pause three seconds before clicking the last image, and that seems to work.
Comment Re:Just like China now (Score 1) 38
These have been there for years. The most brightly colored are the McDonald's delivery bikes.
We're still waiting for the Deliverator.
Comment Re:Battery type (Score 1) 108
One of those "smart bags" https://travelmaterobotics.com... is effectively an autonomous vehicle* that homes in on your smart phone and follows you around.
I want the kind with the legs.
Comment Re:Nasty impact I would say (Score 1) 49
Oh I dunno.
You can make a case for Trek being very racist. All Vulcans are logical and inscrutable and a bit uptight. All Klingons are aggressive and warlike.
Ferengi look and act like a Nazi caricature of Jews.
I.e. in each case races have a well defined trait and all examples of that race seem to share. So I could see why someone who thinks that racial traits dominate over individual ones would like Trek even if Roddenberry would have been appalled by this.
You're confusing races with species.
Do people think I'm racist if I start saying "all gorillas are herbivores?"
And before anyone shouts "what about Miral Paris?", I redirect you to Beefalo.
Comment Re:Well, that's news. (Score 1) 57
“a coding error” that saw the ATMs fail to create reports of $10,000+ transactions.
How about ATMs that don't allow you to withdraw or deposit more than $10,000 in cash?
No, I'm guessing that they made transfers between accounts using the ATMs. but shouldn't the reporting be done at a centralized level?
e.g. ATM requests that a service transfers funds, the transfer service is used by all software to access the accounts (online, teller, ATM, phone), and THAT is responsible for logging $10k+ transactions?
But it does bring us to the question of who was on the inside? The scheme wouldn't work if the criminals didn't know that the reports weren't being generated...
How about ATMs that don't allow you to withdraw or deposit more than $10,000 in cash?
No, I'm guessing that they made transfers between accounts using the ATMs. but shouldn't the reporting be done at a centralized level?
e.g. ATM requests that a service transfers funds, the transfer service is used by all software to access the accounts (online, teller, ATM, phone), and THAT is responsible for logging $10k+ transactions?
But it does bring us to the question of who was on the inside? The scheme wouldn't work if the criminals didn't know that the reports weren't being generated...
Comment Re: Horrifying (Score 1) 271
And Canadian bacon!
Well, at least Canadians mostly know what "Canadian Bacon" is.
Try asking someone in Britain about "English Muffins" and you'll get a blank stare [followed by "Sorry!" and a chat about the rain]
The French call fries "fried potatoes", and they quite likely are from Belgium [am I even allowed to use that word here?]
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